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As part of the programming cycle – and preferably before programming starts – the EU Delegation should prepare an analysis of the country’s (or the region’s) environmental and climate change context, and lessons of past and present EU cooperation as it relates to environment and climate change (including mainstreaming). The analysis covers the country’s key environmental and climate-related challenges and opportunities, the way they are addressed in the national/regional development plans and other policies, and their implications for future EU cooperation and policy dialogue. This assessment informs the evaluation of the national policy documents on which the programming will be based, as well as the policy dialogue and the preparation of the EU response (e.g. the MIP) and its implementation. The assessment should be based, to the extent possible, on existing analyses and data.

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Details on the Country Environmental Profile (CEP) can be found in Annex 1 on Greening Tools, including links to a repository of CEPs and REPs.

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The EU should systematically consider supporting Strategic Environmental Assessments of sectoral plans and programmes when EU support is envisaged to sectors that include substantial climate and environmental risks/opportunities or that are central to the green transition, as SEAs are useful to inform both the partner’s policy design and the EU’s support programme. If this is the case, the preparation of an SEA should already be considered in the MIP. This will facilitate the mobilisation of financial resources at an earlier stage and lead to a more effective process with a higher impact on the greening of sector policies/strategies and associated EU support programmes. Climate and environmental sensitive sectors include notably: agriculture, rural development, energy, water, transport, private sector development, urban development, tourism.

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➡️ Include indicators in the programming document that capture key environmental and climate change concerns

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